Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1930, Page 17

’ WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBE he Sunday Star R 1930. -y [AXT INSURANCE INIONCTION T0 BE e Piay in tiome DN PARKWAY BOARD AREUED TOMORRON Utilities Group Seeks to Fix Financial Responsibility for Industry. INDEPENDENT OWNER HALTED RECENT ORDER Oommission Insists Act of 1913 Gives It Power It Seeks to Exercise. ‘The question of the power of the Public Utilities Commission to insist on financial responsibility of thcse en-| gaged in the taxicab industry will be argued before the District Court of Ap- peals tomorrow. This question was de- cided t the commission by the District Supreme Court, which issued & permanent injunction restraining the commiss| from enforcing its order No. 823 of December 30, 1929, in which | the requirement of financial responsi- | bility was established. This ment, according to the | order, could be met in three ways—by | a statement disclosing ability to pay all | damages which may result from any and all accidents due to the negligent use and operation of the taxicab: by filing with the commission a security, indemnity, or bond guaranteeing the iyment of such damages, or by taking insurance to a reasonable amount the operator’s liability to pay such damages. Independent Owner Sues. ‘When it was sought to put this order into_effect, an independent taxi owner, F. B. Smith, sued out and obtaired an injunction against ‘'t in the trial court, The commission appealed. In its brief, the commission insists that the public utilities act of March 4, 1913, although not specifically making provision for financial responsibility of enough to quotes one paragraph of the act which states that “every public utility is re- to obey the lawful orders of e commission,” and another which states that “every public utility doing business within the District of Colum- bia uequlnfl to furnish service and means free from harm, injury, or risk, and that service and facilities are not just ‘and reasonable his | rated during the week covered by the ‘The case is to be argued for the commission by Assistant Corporation Counsel William A. Roberts.and Robert E. Lynch. The commission has been an_effective control over the industry for the past year, ‘without very much in the way of prac- tical results. One police regulation recently by the District Com- b, commission is now in strenuous efforts to secure forcement of its orders relating to of monthly statistical reports ixi concerns by suing them for in all cases where the reports are made. None of these tases, how- T, has yet been tried. Last year the commission sought speci legislation from Congress giving it control of the taxi industry in various par- ticulars, but the act was not passed. BATES WILL ADDRESS FRIENDS’ FORUM TONIGHT | “A Protective Penal Policy” Is! Bubject of U. 8. Bureau of Prisons Director. Sanford Bates, director of the Bu- 3 38898 had charge of all Federal prisons gnd correctional institutions since early in 1929. ing the past Summer Mr. Bates was elected a vice president of the In- | ternational Prison Conference, which he attended at Prague. The forum meetings are at 8 o'clock. The speaker | November 24 will be Dr. Henry T. Hodgkin, head of Pendle Hill School and December 14, Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the United States Children's Bureau, will speak. MISS WILSON TO TALK AT Y. W. C. A. MEETING ] Speaker Spent 30 Years Doing “Y" Work in India and U. 8. Before Becoming Minister. Miss Elizabeth Wilson, pioneer Y. W. C. A. secretary and editor, will speak at the first monthly world-fellowship ‘Winter meet to be held tomorrow afternoon at 12 o'clock at the Y. C. A. headquarters here. Mrs. Robert Lansing, chairman of the Hospitality Co!nm mittee of the Y. W. C. A,, will pre- side. Miss Wilson, who has spent 30 years in “Y” work in this country and India, and who retired to become a minister in the Methodist Church, will speak on “What Young Women in India Are Doing Through the Y. W. C. A." Saturday n&hl, it was announced yes- terday, Miss Wilson will be the speaker at the all-association dinner to given by the members of the local staff of the Y. W. C. A. in her honor. FLORIST IS CHARGED WITH DRUNK DRIVING Occupant of Machine Is Cut About Head When Car Crashes Pole. Charles Morris, 39-year-old florist of ‘Walker’s Chapel, Va., was arrested on s of dn:lm while drunk acc day an which an t of the he ‘was driving ered minor cuts about the head. Morris was taken into custody by Po- Mceman Charles Clay of the seventh o' telephone pole tn the 5806 block a pol t of Sherrier place. Emery Oliver, 45 rnold.nlm’l H street, was taken Hospital. his release on $1,000 | below. W. | semi-public agency.” '6-Year-Old Falls | . Two Stories While EDorolhy Craig Is in Gal-‘ linger Hospital With | Internal Injuries. | | Tumbling from a second story win- | dow of her home, in which she had been playing, little Dorothy Craig. 6 years old, of 510 Eighth street 50u'h~l east, was injured seriously shortly be- | fore 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. { The little girl is in” Gallinger Hos- | pital with serious internal injuries and scalp wounds. : | Dorothy, according to hospital au- thorities,” was sitting in the window laying when she lost her balence and ell from the sill to the ground. 25 feet Her _screams brought her | mother, Mrs. Lottie Craig. who imme- | diately called police for help. | The fifth precinct patrol wagon re- | sponded and took the girl to the| hospital. 1 PROSPERITY DRIVE ADED BY PASTORS Buy-Now Campaign Will Be| Fully Launched Tomorrow to Help Jobless. A plea for prosperity promotion through prompt purchasing will be sounded from church pulpits of the city today as part of the “buy-now-for-bet- | ter-business” campaign of the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce, which | will be fully launched through many mediums tomorrow, backed by a cen- | tral committee of citizens from all walks | of life. | By radio, the press. the screen, bill- | boards, letterheads, in luncheon hnd: after-dinner speeches, at citizens’ meet- | ings the words of prosperity will be ! spoken to the people. A prospectus of the campaign was given last night by Charles W. Darr, former president of the chamber, and. A. G. Wood, chairman o:; the | am- “Buy-now-for - better - business™ paign Committee. Expect Public Response. Emphasizing the fact that the enter- | rise is & community-w.de affair, Mr. declared, in a talk broadcast over ! Station WMAL, that the sponsors of the | campaign_expect it to “grow like the | traditional snow ball.” ' “It is particularly fitting,” Mr. Darr | sald, “that the ‘buy-now-for-better business’ campaign should be inaugu- sixth annual Industrial Exposition of the Washington Chamber of Commerce at the Washington Auditorium. This trade show will furnish a graphic pic- ture of locally made and locally dis- tributed products, increased sale of which will be of material aid in hasten- | ing business revival in the Pistrict and elsewhere. “Experience has revealed to us one sure way to get over the effects of a business depression. That way is i write off and to forget our real or im- | aginary losses and to settle down again to the kind of work which gets results and creates new and still greater values. “In this connection it is often said that there are two ways to get ahead— (1) to earn more, or (2) to save more. Both of these aims are good when not carried to excess. Too much concen- tration on earnings makes us neglect our duties to our family, friends and community and leads to unhappiness The saving insiinct, when overempha- sized by the many, reduces community buying power and this results in lower wages and smaller profits. “The_sponsors of the ‘Buy-Now-for- | Better-Business’ movement are not try- | ing to start a spending ogry to fill the coffers of our shopkeepers. On the con- trary, they are strongly opposed to a careless and ili-advised expenditure of hard-earned dollars. Such a cours would harm rather than help the re. covery of business.” | ‘The speaker brought out the following | five points, which he suggested might | be followed to offset underexpenditure, | which he explained is quite as harmfui | in its results as is the overexpenditure | characteristic of a period of inflation Profit by Past Lessons. “1. Study’ past expenditures and de- | termine which were wise and which were unwise, “2. Draw up a budget for future spending dropping all items found to | be unnecessary. “3. Compare this budget with annual | income and add or subtract enough money to bring the total within the in come limit with a proper margin of saving. “4. Study current advertisements to! discover how to spend money for items | included in the budget to the best pos- | sible advantage. “5 Having decided what we need. | what we can afford to spend, and how | we can spend most advantagrously, then start in and do buying now. “The Job Registration Bureau of the chamber has been inaugurated as an emergency measure to help us meet the lenge of unemployment and to stimulate the discovery and registration of employment opportunities of every | possible type. “This undertaking, however, is a tem- | porary one which may be taken over at | any moment by some other public or ! Does Not Blame Politics. | _Mr. Wood, speaking over station | WRC during the Washington Gas Light | Co. hour, did not blame politics, the tariff or “any other phase of the outer | workings of & political party” for the present industrial plight, but “money which got beyond the reach of business fictitious values of securities.” | Speaking in an encouraging vein the | Campaign Committee chairman voiced the belief that this faltering was only for a brief spell. “We will prove to the rest of the world that America leads in the welfare of its citizens. That means uing 1o buy on the scale and standard now so well established.” Arrangemen’ has been completed with stations WRC and WMAL for a series of ‘radio talks throughout the week. BOY SWALLOWS PENNY Johnny Murphy, 3 years old, last night swallowed a penny which he found under the carpet while playing on the floor of his home at 1228 Montello ave- nue northeast. The child's parents in just in time to see him gulp down the coin. Johnny was rushed to Casualty Hos- tal, where he was attended by Dr. is Jimal. The doctor learned that | the roadbed across the various inlets | | between Washington and Mount Ver- | the Potomac River by means of & pow- ! soon as the weather settles to permit | pouring of concrete. The construction | Capital Park and Planning Commis- | ing. and was used largely to make possible | o receipt of ‘definite commitments the creation of jobs by all who have ! the means of buying now and contin- | CHISHOLM IS NAMED 10 PURCHASE LAND Two Members Who Are| Chosen Will Select Third for Memorial Group. MT. VERNON HIGHWAY BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE Control Over 1,641 Acres of Prop- erty Yet to Be Acquired for Project. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., engineer of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, was designated yes-| terday by Lieut. Col, U. S. Grant, 3, | the commission's vice chairman and| executive officer, as his nominee on the Board of Appraisal that will purchase land in Virginla under the George! Washigton Memorial Parkway program. Indexing keen interest of Washing- tonians in the parkway development, the commission has been deluged by re- quests for an illustrated pamphlet de- scriptive of the whole project, which it has just issued. ‘Will Name Third Member. The board of supervisors of Arlington County, Va. recently named Keith A. Brumback, Virginia real estate man, as its nominee to co-operate with the Planning_Commission. Capt. Chisolm and Mr. Brumback have met informally and have agreed on the name of a third man to serve on the Board of Appraisal. His identity is being withheld for the present. In order that the State and Federal Governments and the county authorities will get full value for their money, in the purchase of prospective parkway property, the Board of Ap- praisal is being set up. As soon as the third member has been officially se- lected the board will begin to function. Information on land-purchasing activity is held confidential. In the purchase of land on the Mary- land side of the Potomac River, south- ward of Great Falls to Fort Washing- ton, Md., it is expected that the co- operation of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission will be obtained, as well as the State and county authorities, The first link in the George Wash- ington Memorial Parkway is nearing completion, as the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. The Fort Drive, that will link up a group of historic Civil War forts encircling the city, will likely be utilized as the highway for the parkway through Washington. Parkway Takes Shape. A great new development will be opened up between Blue Plains, D. C., and Fort Washington, the Army post that is remembered as the one where L'Enfant constructed part of the forti- fications. A new arterial highway will be constructed in that region, to afford motorists a beautiful driveway along a little-known section of Maryland, down to Piscataway Creek, eastward of Marshall Hall. The pamphlet asserts that the com- mission “has already acquired lands for almost half the distance between the Anacostia River in Washington and Fort Washington, and is now eng: under other authority in acquisition of lands along the Potomac above the city which lie within the District of Co- lumbia.” i The George Washington Memorial Parkway is taking tangible shape iv the vicinity of Mount Vernon, where grading work has been accomplished and the groundwork laid for a large parking space at this terminus of the | boulevard. The United States Engineer | Office, under the direction of Maj. Jo- seph D. Arthur, jr, district engineer for the War Department for the Wash- ington area, is completing the hydraulic pipe line dredging work, in throwing non. This is accomplished by pumping up sand and gravel from the bottom of erful hydraulic pipe line dredge. Paving Scheduled Early in 1931. Paving of the Mount Vernon Me- morial Highway is expected to be un- dertaken early in the new year, as of this highway is proceeding under direction of the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture. Officials of the bureau yesterday fur- nished The Star with this picture of the present state of the development: Hydraulic work on four of the “fills"— placing a streak of earth for the future roadbeds across the water inlets that| cross the right of way of the highway —has been about completed. Work proceeding on the last of these “fills,” that at Hunting Creek. Grading work on dry land is now about 70 per cent completed. Three bridges—at the Fort Hunt! overpass, at the Wellington Villa under- pass and at the Southern Railway in- dustrial overpass at Alexandria—are ow nearly complete. With reference to the fiscal features of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, the pamphlet of the National sion explains: “For the acquisition of control, Congress has authorized ap- propriation of $7.500,000 and has al- ready appropriated $1.000,000 which is available for Jand purchases when co- operation of other parties is forthcom- Uncer the Capper-Cramton act, the whole cost of maintaining and policing the park areas after acquisition will be borne by the Pederal Govern- ment. Cost Is Provided For. “Congress has provided that Federal appropriations may be expended by the Naticnal Capital Park and Planning Commission for any unit of the project from the State of Maryland or Virginia, or political subdivisions thereof, or from other responsible sources for one-half the cost of acquiring’ the land. “Congress has further offered to ad- vance the whole cost of acquiring any unit upon agreement with either State or any political subdivision thereof for reimbursement to the United States of one-half the cost without interest with- in eight years.” | The Mount Vernon Memorial High- way will run from the Arlington Me- morial Bridge to Mount Vcrnon, a dis- | tance of 15 miles, and will traverse a country rich in historic interest, termi- nati:g at the old home of the Father of His Country. ‘The commission, n its publication, points out that “control over various areas, totaling about 1,641 acres and lying between the Mount Vernon Me- morial Highway and the river, is still to be acquired. ‘The most important of these areas are at Little Hunting Creek, Wellington and Wellington Villa, near Dyke, north of Alexandria and at Hunt- ers and Gravelly Points. Along the upper Potomac River pre- Johnny was suffering no ill effects from the penny and sent him home with in- structions to report lats§ for treatment. liminary suryeys by the commission “in- dicate & desirable park area of over 260 aer-s alang this portion of the river in HOW ARLINGTON BRIDGE AREA WILL LOOK UNDER PARKWAY PLAN The above drawing shows the treatment proposed for the Arlington Bridge area of the Potomac Valley in the George Washington Memorial Parkway plan. POLICEAN SAVED Colored Man’s Gun Snaps in Officer Clay’s Face Five Times. A defective pistol saved Policeman Henry Clay of the seventh precinct last night from almost certain death. While attempting to arrest Louis Wil- liams, 52 years old, colored, a pistol | held by Williams snapped five times in Clay's face. Examination of the gun showed that the hammer of the weapon failed to dent the five cartridge caps.! Called to a house in the 1300 block of Twenty-seventh street by an anony- | mous telephone call that reported a brawl in progress, Clay walked into a | | room to find Clarence Bell, 40-year-old | colored man, lying on the floor severely | cut, and Willlams standing nearby with drawn pistol. | “Don’t you move. You're in house and I'll shoot,” Clay quoted Wil- liams as saying. Disregarding the order, Clay said he advanced toward Willlams, who began to pull the ‘rigger of the gun. The | cartridges failed to explode. Williams attacked the policeman with his fists | when the pisto] failed to fire, it was said. but was overpowered by Clay after & brief struggle and taken to the seventh precinct after Clay had arranged for Bell's removal to the hospital. Willlams told police he lived at the | house were the stabbing occurred, but an investigation revealed that he did not. FELLOWSHIP RULES i IN LAW ANNOUNCED Applications to Be Received Untll‘ March 1 in Teacher and Student Classifications. ‘The Division of International Law of the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- tional Peace last week announced regu- lations governing fellowships in inter- national law which will be awarded by the Committee on International Law Pellowships for the academic year 1931-2, The fellowships, which have been established by the trustees of the en- dowment to provide teachers competent in giving instruction in international law and related subjects, as an aid to colleges and universities in extending and improving study and teaching of these subjects, are awarded in two classes, teachers’ fellowships and stu- dents’ fellowships. | Applications will be received up to March 1, 1931, it was announced by the committee through Dr. James Brown Scott, director. —_— ENGINEERS CELEBRATE Dinner Planned November 19 Observe Anniversary. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Washington Society to | of Engineers will be celebrated with & dinner of the entire membership of the soclety at the Mayflower Hotel No- | vember 19, it was announced yester- day by F. A. Hunnewell, president. | The Washington Society of Engineers | has a membership of over 700 profes- sional engineers engaged in all phases of engineering work. Its officers and directors are: F. A. Hunnewell, prpsl-: dent; W. E. Parker, vice president; W. S. Garland, treasurer; Paul C. Whitney. secretary; C. H. Birdseye. E. C. Gil- .'B. Hawley, A. B. McDaniel. B. J. Peterson, Starr Truscott, D. C. ‘Walser and C. C. Witt, directors. —_———————— “Race for Gentlemen” a Success. ROUEN, France () —A race for gentlemen, in which the contestants Wore evening clothes, high hats, gloves and a buttonhole bouquet and carried | canes was held here. the winner cov- ering three miles in 35 minutes. — Arlington County and approximately 2,460 acres in Fairfax County. Cirouit Drive to Be Provided. e Maryland shore in the lower Pe?:m:‘r‘: e é’ommlssinn explains that its plans “call for a parkway from the District of Columbia at Oxon Run, | along the river to Fort Foote, to Indian i Queen Bluff, and then on a fill across | Broad Creek and along the shore to hington. ,\,‘r‘lt"h:ll'complflwn of a Federal-aid | highway along such a route would make possible & circuit drive of 285 miles via the Mount Vernon Highway, across the river by ferry at Fort Washington and return.” the commission points out. “The right of way for this Fort Wash- ington Parkway is designed to have minimum width of 250 feet and is es- timated to involve acquisition of about g r Potomac, the commis- sion asserts that “between Conduit road and the river (omitting Glen Echo and part of Cabin John subdivisions) aj proximately 3,546 acres are to be ac. . This of the project in- | l.mke & Ohio Canal (abandoned) to t of Rocks, which is to restore for DR-‘;(E }xnt- b parkwa, gnet g.lonu' E’”‘m bank 'd the canal Y | sing | which are closest to their hearts, and | Howe to write | printed U. S. Folk Songs Gathered WHEN P|Sm|_ FA"_S‘ Dr. R. W. Gordon Makes Thorough Study of Origin and Development of Tunes and Words for Library of Congress—W ealth of Material Found. America’s vast store of folk songs | is being preserved, collected and studied at the Library of Congress. The work is under the direction of Dr. R. W. Gordon, who is finding in the oblivion of thousands of old hymn books the songs of forgotten yesterdays, and. with infinite labor, tracing them | back to their origins and variations. | He also is perfecting and assembling apparatus for collecting American folk songs in the field from persons who still remember them. Wealth of Folk Songs. ‘The United States, Gordon says, ha< the greatest wealth of folk songs of any country, since it inherited practi- cally all those of England, Scotland and Ireland besides adding some types of its own, such as the Negro spiritual The very nature of a folk song, Gordon points out, makes it an invaluable in- strument for unearthing the social his- tory of a people, since men and women spontaneously of those things slight varations of words or music may show important fundamental changes. For, says Gordon, the first test of a folk song is that it has aricen spon- taneously, without any specific author. When some author deliberately takes a folk son~ and, by a stroke of genius, stabilizes its form, 1t ceases to be a folk song. Thus Burns took songs like “Auld Lang Syne,” snatches of which probably had been floating around the Scotch countryside for years, and put them in permanent form so that they ceased to be folk songs and became part of his poetry. Such songs as “My Old Kentucky Home” and “Swanee River. he says, are by no means folk songs. but definite literary and musical works of one man, although based on folk themes. Detective Ability Needed. Tracing real folk songs to their origin requires almost infinite labor and pa- tience. An example of the folk song whose history Gordon has unearthed bit by bit in the dusty old song books in “John Brown's Body.” «John Brown's body lies a-moul- dering in the grave, 5 But his soul goes marching on. So sang the boys in blue as they poured out of the citles and villages of North in 1861. 4 th?l‘he emotion-stirring “Glory, glory, hallelujah” of the chorus was a potent thing in stirring up fighting fervor. It has come down as a fixed part of the picture of the Civil War. ~The song passed from lir to lip and variations and new verses were fitted to the tune. Soon the soldiers were singing: “We'll hang Jefl Davis to a sour apple tre ree, Glory, glory, hallelujah.” Dixie Answers Challenge. Even in Dixie this spontaneous song was taken up with the answering chal- lenge: “Well hang Abe Lincoln to a sour apple tree, oo Glory, glor7, hallelujah. And back again in the North the ving chorus inspired Julla War Howe “The Battle Hymn of Republic,” thus giving the appar- ey spontaneous war song a fixed form in literature. " And in one of the Massachusetts regiments there was an unfortunate fellows named John Brown, upon whom the song was fixed in vigorous burlesque and passed {rom regiment to regiment in an unending variation of verses. The iuckless private was the “made- moiselle from Armentieres” of the Civil War. 0dd Quirks Revealed. Now Gordon's researches in the old and forgotten hymnals and song col- lections in the library files have revealed the strange circumstance that this song | was ready and waiting for some time before the John Brown who was hanged for the Harpers Ferry raid had come to public notice. It was practically a case of a song abou: an event being written before the event happened. Back in the ola Kentucky camp meet- ing days, Gordon finds, there was a spiritual which ran as follows: “O, brother, will you meet me On Candar’s happy shore: By the grace of God I'll meet you On Canaan’s happy shore. There we'll shout and give Him glory, There we'll shout and give Him glory, There we'll shout and give Him glory, On Canaan’s happy shore.” From this forgotten hymn, apparent- ly so far removed, the trail leads di- rectly to “John Brown's body" thence, to the “Battle Hymn of the Re- public.” But the job of tracing it was & marvelous bit of literary and musical detective work. Song Preceded Event.' Gordon found. this song first in a| camp-meeting | hymns which appeared in 1809, when | collection of the John Brown of history was a boy. It had probably been in existence, un- printed, for years. It was not accom- panied by music. ‘Then it appears in various hymnals | with music, but not the tune of John Brown's body. Changes were being introduced in the words. In a hymnal of 1858 lgpelr!d the lines: ‘When this poor body lies a-moul- ering in the tomb, My soul’s safe at home. Apparently verse after verse of the original, merely repetitions with slight variations, sprang up spontaneously in the emotion-chi atmosphere of a camp meeting. Thus the song could be continued in- definitely, ascending all the time to a higher and higher emotional pitch. Just and, | the same way the Civil War soldiers first “hanged Jefl Davis” and then all | the rest of the Southern officials and | generals, the Confederates doing the| ?1’:1“ for Lincoln and so on down the | Final Result Is Hymn. Then, in April, 1859, a hymnal was printed containing the words with the music of “John Brown’s Body,” the first appearance in musical literature, al- | nrx‘ou h it must have been a part of | the And John Brown was not hanged until December, 1859. The old tune and lines of the hymn were simply fitted on the event. | “Oh, brother, will you meet me?" | he compares to the trunk of a tree. | Then the coupling it with the “Glory, | glory, hallelujah” chorus and music be- | comes a branch from the trunk. Ap- | plying it to John Brown becomes an- other limb branching off the first, while | | the “hanging - Jefl Davis” version is| another branch. And the clownish, | obscene and other adventures of John Brown, the Yankee private, become still another sub-branch from the Harpers | Ferry John Brown branch. All these | branches sprouted naturally, but the | “Battle Hymn of the Republic” was a deliberate graft on the folk song tree. | Until this last step the song had no author, but amounted to a growing se- ries of 'spontaneous verses which sprang | to the lips of emotionally-stirred crowds. CRIPPLED CHILDREN | CAN GET EDUCATION Special Classes Are Established in‘ 85 American Cities; Civie Organizations Help. By the Associated Press. Special classes for crippled children have been established by public school systems of 85 cities in the United States to aid them to secure an edu- cation equal to that of the healthy child. A study made by the Office of Educa- tion in the Department of the Interior has shown that crippled children num- ber one for every 400 of the general population and disclosed that the public schools of the Nation are giving more attention to the needs of crippled chil- dren than ever before. | | The first public school facilities for crippled children were established by Chicago in 1899, which now has four schools where more than 1.600 crippled | | children receive instruction. | | 'The Order of the Mystic Shrine, the | Rotarlan, “Kiwanis and other business | men’s clubs, the Junior League and the | | Red Cross, with other organizations, have aided the schools in their efforts, 'ART IN ADVERTISING | 10 BE SUBJECT OF TALK 'Gordan C. Aymar of New York to | Address Washington Club | Tuesday. | “The Value of Art in Advertising” will be the subject of Gordon C. Avmar {of the Blackman Co. of New York be- fore the Advertising Club of Washing- ton at its Tuesday luncheon at 12:30 o'clock in the au- ditorium of the National Press 3 Club. | Mr. Aymar’s ad- dress will be illus- trated with views | = of samples of ad- % vertising art in colors. Newspa- pers and maga- zines have given such increasing manifestations of the aid of art in public announce- ments, it is ex- plained, t hat President James | W. S. Hardy and the directors of the Advertising Club selected Mr. Aymar to make the presentation of this phase of advertising. An invitation has been accepted by the art schools of Washington for their faculties and students to attend. Stu-| dents will be admitted upon presenta- tion of a regular student card or letter from the institutions invited. DIVISION CHIEF NAMED Walter C. Thurston of Colorado, United States Foreign Service officer who has served as assistant chief of the Division of Latin-American Affairs at | the State Department since April, 1929, has been appointed chief of that divi- sion to fill the vacancy occasioned by the recent ap tment of Dana C. :’m‘r&m as United States Minister to aiti. Mr. Thi Service in 1914, and has served succes- sively in Mexico, Guatemala, the State Department; _Bern, Switzerland; Jose, ta Rica; London, Nicaragua, Bfl-ll.l,ogrtunl. Cuba and this city. Mr. Aymar. | Ll b S Bl | charged, United States Attorney Leo A. | life of George Washington. LIQUOR INDICTMENT FORM 1S CHANGED ‘New Method Evolved by Rover Approved by Decision of Justice Gordon. Pending action by the District Court of Appeals on the decision of Justice Peyton Gordon of the District Supreme Court that an indictment against Ed- ward E. Denison, Representative from Illinois, charged with possession of liquor was bad because it did not ad- vise the accused of what he was Rover has evolved & new form of in- dictment in cases involving the sale and possession of liquor. ‘The new form of indictment was at- tacked yesterday before Justice Gordon and met with his approval, as shown by his decision to dismiss a demurrer against it. The new form sets forth the names of ths persons to whom sales were made and the dates and places. The indictment held good by Justice Gordon charges Edward Tipton, 817-819 Fourteenth street, with sale and pos- session of liquor. It is in five counts. The first count charges sale to Joseph R. Beach, September 23, of a quantity of gin. The second charges possession of the gin sold on that occasion. The third alleges a sale of gin to Benjamin F. Bean, September 25. In the fourth count he Is charged with possession of the gin sold to Bean. The fifth charge is a blanket allegation of possession of “gin and alcohol” in violation of the national prohibition act. The appeal in the Denison case prob- HITS PROSECUTOR AND BALLISTICS IN CAMPBELL TRIAL Brother of Accused Charges Assistant District Attorney “Went Beyond Duty.” HOLDS BULLET TESTS UNRELIABLE IN COURT Calls on People of D. C. to Urge Reopening Case of Convicted Colored Man, The Government has closed its books in the case of the United States versus Herbert Campbell, with a final chapter on the reliability of ballistics remaining incomplete. Col. Calvin H. Goddard of North- western University, who was assigned to write the climatic chapter, reluctantly relinquished the half-finished job yese terday when the District attorney’s of= fice refused to hold the record open fof, the belated pages. < Assistant United States Attorney Wils liam H. Collins, whose prosecution ef Campbell on a charge of murdering Mary Baker ended in the defendant’s” exoneration, refused to co-operate with' Goddard in a plan to finish the ballistic’ assignment in Chicago, and abandon-’ ment of the undertaking resulted. As Col. Goddard was lea: late yes-' terday, Frank G. Campbell, ther of the freed realty dealer, took a final fling at ballistic experts who claim their science is “exact” and at the assistant District attorney who brought his brother to trial. Scores Prosecutor. o The real estate mas brother held out two “lessons to be learned from the Campbell murder case”— first, ballistics is unreliable in trials for capital offenses, and, second, that & prosecutor * become an instrument of oppression and justice rather tham the contrary.” Incidentally, the brother referred a recent conviction of a colored ma for murder on evidence reportedly “‘circumstantial and largely based ballistic testimony” and called on people of the District of Columbia” to reopen the case for an investigation of the “sufficiency of the evidence " Before leaving for Chicago Col. God! the test over which he had been working at the Bureau of Standards. He reiterated his regret at Collins' refusal to consent to a consummation of the ballistic experi- ment begun during the Campbell trial, and repeated his offer to conduct & similar test “at any time” to prove the infallibility of bullet identification, Collins . Disapproves. In & formal statement yesterday ernoon, Goddard sald that Collins disapproved his request for permission to appeal direct to Justice Jesse C, Adkins, pre in Criminal Division 2, for authority to finish the studies of aft« bad ably will b2 heard during December in the Court of Appeals, and.a decision reached early in the new year. In the interval Rover will continue to use the new form. THOUSAND BOY SCOUTS TO PRESENT PAGEANT | Life of Washington Event to Be Part of National Celebration of Movement. More than 1,000 Boy Scouts of the local council will participate in a pag- eant early in February depiciting the The event here will be part of a Nation-wide cele- bration on the twenty-first birthday of the Boy Scout movement. The scenes will include 14 imper- sonations of Washington at different ages, a pwo-wow of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania Indians, a jollifica- tion of the colored servants of Wash- ington’s family and neighbors, Wash- ington's first birthday, a Virginia County fair in Washington's time and the tutors of Washington in scout- craft. The place where the pageant will be staged and the day will be de- termined later. COURSE TO BE OPENED FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Neighborhood House Rally at | Thursday Will Open Girls' Work Council Activity. The Girls’ Work Council of the Recreation Committee, Council of Social Agencies, will conduct a course his month to instruct young people in the leadership of boys’ and girls’ clubs. The course will open Thursday with a rally of leaders at the Neigh- borhood House. Dr. Paul Ewerhardt, director of the Washington Institute of Mental Hy- giene, will discuss child guidance be- fore the leaders at 7:30 o'clock Tues- day night, November 11, at the Y. W. C. A. On succeeding Tuesdays through- out November, at the same time and p’llce. other speakers will address the class. YOUNG MOFFETT AIRMAN Son of Admiral Completes Course and Will Go to Sea. Ensign George H. Moffett, son of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Navy's Aeronautics Bureau, has completed a course at the Pensacoia Naval Air Station and will soon go sea as an airman. Young Moffett will be assigned to Carrier Division 2 of the | United States Fleet, which operates from San Diego, Calif. Admiral Moffett, who has been at the head of naval aeronautics since 1921, | observed his sixty-first birthday Friday. PLAY IN CLUB BENEFIT | First Lady Reserves Box for “Sub- way Express,” Wellesley Event. The Washington Wellesley Club will sponsor a mystery play, “Subway Ex- press,” at the National Theater tomor- row night for the benefit of the club’s scholarship has rese: The urston entered the Foreign | cellenct San | Franc . that case, according to the newspa to | evidence as had been the exhibits in his Chicago laboratory. The prosecutor explained that the sole reason for refusing to agree to | continuation of the tests was that the records in the Campbell case are “s closed book” and that “no zood pure pose would be served” by the tests now. Plans for a meeting last night of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at which Ale bert H. Hamilton, defense criminologist was to be introduced by Herbert Campe bell for the pupose of discussing bals listics, failed to materialize. Tt was un= derstood the meeting may be held to- | morrow night or Tuesday night. . Trial Will Cost $5,000. | Frank Campbell sald last night that | the trial will cost his brother between {83,500 and $5,000, in addition to his “sorrow, worry and time.” “It seems to me that there are two outstanding lessons to be learned from the Campbell murder case,” he said in a statement issued yesterday. “The first is that ballistics is far from being such an exact science as to justify the sentencing to death of human bein on the strength of it, and the second that prosecuting officials sometimes have a very erroneous conception of what is required of them under what they term their ‘duty.’ “With respect to the question of where the duty of & ting attor- ney lies, we had in Campbell case a situation "Ml the offi- based upon written records that could not possibly have been chal and which so completely establish the pres= ence of Herbert Campbell in his own home at the time of the attack on Miss Baker as to make it a certainty that he could not possibly have been guilty. Yet with this positive direct. evidence in hand they proceeded to require the de- fendant Campbell to place himself in jeopardy and to go to the expense and the humiliation of & murder trial mere- ly because they had certain circumstan« tial evidence in hand. Goes Beyond Range of Duty. “Prosecuting officials become prose~ cuting officials because they have na- tive ability in the way of eloquence, convincing manner of speech and a knowledge of the law. When they stand before a jury these native advantages are buttréssed and enhanced by the halo which goes with a representative of the law. For such a man to stand before a jury of laymen, having little i knowledge of the law and urge the con- viction of & man whom he knows to be innocent, merely because he thinks that he can convict upon the circum- stantial evidence, seems to be going | bevond the range of duty. “If the newspapers are correct, a man was recently indicted here in the Dis- trict of Columbia where the evidence was wholly eircumstantial and largely based upon ballistic tesiimony. In TS, the defendant, an ignorant colored man, was confronted with the ballistic evidence and such other circumstantial accumulated. The officers impressed upon him the cer- tainty of conviction, whereupon he is said to have remarked, ‘Well, I reckon you have got enough to convict me and I had better take a 10 spot.’ “This, it seems. would make it clear that he had been led to believe that if he would plead guilty he would get off with a 10-year sentence. When he went to trial the remark quoted above was, I am informed by the news- paper men, construed to be equivalent to a confession and he was sentenced to imprisonment for life. “If the facts are as stated above, and if his remark, made merely with the thought that he would rather take a sentence of 10 years than to risk